Quotes About Nostalgia

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

I've been a baseball fan in the early part of my life, so through the '70s and the '80s, I was a huge fan. I actually followed the Dodgers back then, back in the Kirk Gibson years, Steve Garvey.

I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.

Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the '70s.

I used to jam with Steve Marriott of the Small Faces.

I even used to play as Liverpool on the PlayStation on 'FIFA' when I was 18 or 19, as Steven Gerrard, Sami Hyypia, Jamie Carragher, Michael Owen, and Xabi Alonso.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Steven Spielberg was a huge part of my childhood, like everyone's, I guess.

Steven Spielberg films were huge touchstones for us growing up.

I'd love to work with the Coen brothers. And Steven Spielberg. 'E.T.' was big for me.

I used to watch MTV when they played music, and discovered Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey.